The primary goal of this level is to continue to help students improve the knowledge of Chinese language and develop skills in speaking, reading, writing and understanding of the language. By the end of this course, students will learn to convey basic and conduct conversations in standard modern Chinese. Some of the themes are reinforcing what students have learned before, in order to solidify basics, and are developing more complex sentence structures. Students should know a total of about 50 most commonly used radicals, be able to write about another 50 compound Chinese characters, understand a total of about 300 Chinese words, be able to read and write about 200 Chinese characters, and will be able to talk about weather, friends, school classes and daily schedule